Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 214: Mongett's Infiltration (6k)
Hakan was astonished to see so many strange creatures.

I heard from Bai Shi before that a mount was coming, but I didn’t expect that the mount would look so strange?

To be honest, if it was just an ordinary lizard, it would be fine and not unacceptable.

But this lizard has no scales, it's smooth...

Bai Shi stretched out his hand and beckoned Hakan to come over.

"Hakan, from now on these will be the standard mounts for the Dragonblood Knights."

"By the way, let me introduce you."

"This is Stella, the current manager of Selia Town."

"These mounts were all provided by the town of Selia."

Bai Shi turned around again and said to Stella:
"This is Hakan, the leader of the Dragonblood Knights."

"Once we have finished dealing with matters near Selia Town, the Dragonblood Knights will escort the magicians from Selia Town to Stonewell."

The two nodded to each other.

Bai Shi spoke again:
"Hakam, the command method of these dragon beasts is quite special. You should learn it in the next two days."

"You should first learn from Stella how to command all these dragon beasts."

"After you have learned everything, teach your knights how to command individual dragon beasts one by one, and make sure they all master it."

"Once you have all finished your studies, we will prepare to depart for the town of Selia."

"In addition to transferring the magicians, we also need to fight a battle in Selia Town."

Hakan nodded.

"Okay, I'll make sure they all get the hang of it as soon as possible."

"When we get to Selia Town, what kind of enemies will we have to fight?"

Bai Shi chuckled twice.

"I want you to recapture the Selia Crystal Tunnel that has been occupied by the corrupt followers."

"Selia Town is our territory now."

"We can't let those guys occupy it forever. The forging stones inside still need to be mined."

Although Hakan had never actually seen the corrupt followers, he had heard of the various scarlet corrupt creatures on Galid.

The corrupt dependents may not seem to be very powerful, but they are numerous and have a strong sense of collective consciousness.

It's a good time to practice a large-scale battle.

This is an essential exercise if we want to fight other armies in the future.

"Well, if that's the case, let's just treat this as the first real battle of the Dragonblood Knights."

The dragon soldier who had fought with the Dragonblood Knights before was not that strong.

A single dragon soldier is only at the hero level.

What's more, the Dragon Blood Knights also brought ropes and restraint nets to restrict their movements.

After slightly restricting their movements, a large number of knights rushed forward and easily defeated the dragon soldiers.

Apart from the ice thunder conducting electricity in the pool of water, which injured some knights, there were almost no casualties.

Moreover, fighting against corrupt followers in a narrow environment like a tunnel is also quite challenging.

Bai Shi nodded.

"Well, I'll leave it to you. Perform well."

“By the way, remember to arrange a place for Stella to live.”

"Hurry up and get the instructions in the next two days."

"I'm going back to my place first."

After saying that, Bai Shi walked towards his own tent, leaving Hakan and Stella to communicate on their own.

Bai Shi pushed open the tent and saw that it was quite lively inside.

Hakan's old friend White Wolf was also in the tent, letting Shiv lean against him.

Torrett, on the other hand, was holding a branch with a bunch of Roya fruits in its mouth and stuffing the Roya fruits into Shiv's mouth.

It looks like Torret is trying to teach Shiv how to eat the Roa Fruit.

Obviously, Shiv was not willing to eat it. He turned his head back and forth to avoid the Roa Fruit that Torrett extended to him.

Bai Shi could even sense the disgust on its face.

Bai Shi snatched the branch of the Roya fruit from Torret's mouth, picked a few Roya fruits and threw them into Torret's mouth.

After sending Torrett, who was chewing the Roya fruit, away, Bai Shi rubbed Shiv's little head.

It's furry and feels really good, but the spiral corners on it are a bit uncomfortable to touch.

While howling happily, Schiff stretched out his two front paws and tried to grab Bai Shi's hand.

When the two little paws grabbed Bai Shi's hand, Schiff opened his mouth and gently bit Bai Shi's hand, inviting Bai Shi to play with him.

Bai Shi always felt that his subordinate Shiv seemed to have grown up a little.

So Bai Shi picked it up and weighed it in his hand.

Unexpectedly, this was not an illusion. Schiff had become much heavier than when he was just born.

This growth rate is indeed quite exaggerated.

Bai Shi sat cross-legged on the ground, flipped Shiv to the ground, and then turned him over again after he stood up.

While playing with Shiv, Bai Shi was thinking about his next goal.

Bai Shi didn't plan to waste the time while Hakan and the Dragonblood Knights were waiting to learn the commands to control the dragon beasts.

Bai Shi plans to set off in the next two days and take advantage of this time to go to Lienia.

There is an underground cemetery in Lienia, which contains an important treasure left by the Knox Dynasty - the Knox Mirror Helmet.

Once Lani starts to act, her two fingers will activate the backup plan she left behind and forcibly control Blaze.

Bai Shi hasn't handed the hunting finger knife to Lani yet, but to be on the safe side, it's better to get the mirror helmet as soon as possible.

After all, the meteorite made such a loud noise, it would be bad if Shuangzhi realized anything in advance.

Besides, there was a record of hunting finger knives, so two fingers should be especially cautious.
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At this moment, in faraway Stonewell.

A resident with ragged clothes, a haggard face, and a zombie-like appearance slowly walked towards the tower of Stonewell.

He looked at Stonewell, whom he had not seen for a long time, and then walked into the passage leading to Stonewell under the watchful eyes of the Silver Knights.

This zombie-like resident is one of the clones created by Mongt.

Ever since the Night Cavalry in Nimgefu was wiped out by the White Consciousness, Mongt stopped all other plans for Nimgefu.

The number of Night Cavalry troops can be replenished in batches, but this meaningless and low-profit task no longer needs to be done.

Most of the Faded Ones who wanted to go to Stonewell have already gone there, and there will no longer be a large group of Faded Ones like when Bai Shi just became king.

All that will remain are small groups of just a few people.

Therefore, even if more Night Cavalry were sent, it would not be possible to achieve the same results as at that time.

It would be a waste of resources to send the Night Cavalry to kill such small groups of Faded Ones.

The Night Riders are legitimate heroic units.

If possible, Mungat actually hopes to send out a large army as soon as possible to eliminate the hidden danger of Stonewell.

However, the royal city of Rodel is too far away from here.

The terrain of Lienia is also very troublesome. It is not wise to send a large army when the highway is destroyed.

Besides, Rodel's army cannot be sent out so easily.

Their most important duty is to protect Rodel.

But this does not mean that Monget will sit back and watch the development of Baizhi without doing anything.

As the saying goes, if you want to defeat your enemy, you need to understand your enemy.

Monget was not familiar with Bai Shi, the faded one who suddenly appeared.

The other demigods who rule as fragment kings know a lot of information, and most of them are no longer a threat.

Only Bai Shi was able to seize the Great Rune as a Faded One and become a fragment king who ruled a region.

There is no clue about Bai Shi's first half of life as a Faded One, and even Bai Shi himself doesn't know.

And this part is not important to Monget.

What he really cares about is the present Bai Shi and the present Stonewell.

And what kind of power can Stonewell gather after absorbing the Faded Ones.

There are traces of the various management and planning that Bai Shi carried out for Stonewell after he became king.

As long as he knew all this information, Monget would be able to further understand Baizhi.

This is an essential part of gathering intelligence.

Especially some time ago, Mungat had seen a meteor in the sky.

This means that the stars have started to move again.

Mongert was also certain that someone must have defeated General Latan and seized his Great Rune.

There is no doubt that if Mongett were to say who could defeat General Latan now, it would definitely be Bai Shi.

Not only was he close, but he was also able to move freely.

Unlike other fragment kings, who are unable to act for various reasons.

In other words, Bai Shi now owns two large runes.

So Monget took quick action -

He first used runes to create a clone, and let the clone travel all the way from the royal city of Rodel to the Nimgefu area.

He then asked his clone to use magic to change his appearance and disguise himself as an ordinary zombie resident.

In the border area, the identity of zombies is very useful because basically no one cares about them.

So now Mongt's clone entered the tower very smoothly and headed towards the passage leading to Stonewell.

In the passage, he was inspected by the Silver Knights.

The Silver Knight looked at the ordinary zombie resident in front of him and, as usual, checked his identity.

"Name?"

"..."

"gender?"

"..."

"..."

“Ah…Ah…”

"Turn around, take two steps forward, and jump."

Mungart followed the instructions and took two steps forward, but did not jump.

There are different levels of zombification, so there is no need to perform too well.

This is the strength of veteran actors, they can handle any situation.

The Silver Knight who was in charge of registration sighed. It was just another zombie who could only make noises.

After recording all the facial features of the zombie, he waved to the other teammates behind him.

"Well, put it in."

"He's out of consciousness." The other Silver Knights beside him nodded and let him go.

The Silver Knights were not surprised by these almost unconscious zombie residents.

The zombies are few in number compared to the faded ones who come to Stonewell, but these zombies are actually the norm in the border area.

Fortunately, even though the zombies have almost lost their consciousness, they can still communicate in some simple ways through words.

Sometimes you can also let them do some less complicated work.

Although we don't expect them to accomplish anything, at least they are a little bit of human resources and can still do some simple work.

Soon after, a resident of Stoneville came to show Mongett the way.

Mongett was at peace.

It is indeed a bit embarrassing to play dumb, but fortunately he has gotten used to it.

Mungt once relied on this strategy to successfully achieve many victories when the coalition forces attacked Rodel.

When the coalition forces of kings attacked, he would often disguise himself as an ordinary soldier in the army to infiltrate.

He had once found an opportunity to pierce General Latan's chest.

Unfortunately, the effect of General Ratan's Big Rune was beyond his expectations, and he stood up as if nothing had happened.

In the end, the two men fought head-on for a long time, but were evenly matched, and the battle ended inconclusively.

It can be said that Mongett is already quite skilled in infiltration and infiltration.

After the Shattered War ended, he would occasionally act as a zombie, so few people would be wary of him.

There are still quite a lot of zombies wandering around in the border area.

The impact of the shattering war is still extremely heavy today, and the population of the border area is less than one-tenth of that of the original population.

Moreover, after such a long time, many people have turned into zombies.

You can often encounter wandering zombies in various places in the border area, including dignitaries and residents, and sometimes you can also see some bandits and fleeing soldiers.

For example, before, Patch recruited a group of zombie soldiers who escaped and became bandits as his team members.
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After passing through this passage, Monget, led by the resident, crossed the bridge where he had fought with Bai Shi.

Now this place has been rebuilt and the floor tiles have been refurbished.

In addition, some wooden fences were added on both sides to prevent people from falling accidentally.

While Mongt continued to pretend to be a zombie and blindly followed people, he recalled the silver knights he had just seen.

In all the time he had been in Stoneville, he had never seen a knight like that.

It was obvious that those Silver Knights were selected and trained from the Faded Ones after Bai Shi ruled Stonewell, and their armors were still brand new.

Mongt compared the strength of those silver knights.

The level of these silver knights is actually not that high.

Basically, the level is between soldiers and regular knights of the king's army.

Although I don’t know what position they hold under Bai Shi, it is more than enough for them to guard the gate.

This is because Bai Shi decided it when he assigned the responsibilities of the legion.

The Silver Knights are responsible for city defense and public security, while the Dragon Blood Knights are the main combat knights and must be strong.

This resulted in the Dragon Blood Knights being much stronger than the Silver Knights.

Mungat felt that these silver armors were not as beautiful as Rodel's golden armor after all.

The gold color is a symbol of the grace of the golden tree, and these people probably won’t understand its meaning.

Soon, Mungat followed the resident who led the way and officially entered the city of Stonewell.

As soon as he stepped through the city gate, Monget felt a special "gaze".

This is not a real sight, but a powerful soul that is constantly patrolling with storms.

Mungat did not show any abnormality. He just disguised himself and followed the leader in front of him.

"Your investigative awareness is pretty good, too."

In the Nimgfu area, Monget has always felt the patrolling gazes of the Storm Eagles.

And within Stonewell, storm eagles are flying back and forth in the sky non-stop, and there are even more of them.

There seems to be another mysterious person here, monitoring the overall situation in Stonewell.

A little surveillance was not a problem for Monget.

However, the next action plan may need to be more cautious.

Mungot saw a large number of various defensive equipment placed on the open space of the outer fort.

But now those defensive equipment have been moved away, and instead a large amount of wood and stones have been piled here.

The mountain goblins were carrying huge stones and wood and transporting them into the city.

The hybrids and subhumans processed the smaller stones on the ground and smashed them into fine gravel.

Mungat looked at the hybrids and subhumans with some surprise.

There seem to be quite a lot of them, are they slaves?
No, it seems not a slave.

Mungart looked carefully and found that the subhumans and hybrids here were still wearing intact clothes, and every one of them was.

Their clothes were a little messy, but it was obvious that they had received a certain degree of civilized education.

Monget couldn't help but take a few more glances.

In the royal city of Rodel, only the golden people, oracle messengers, and ancient dragons can obtain a high status.

The rest were rejected by the self-righteous golden people.

Especially the sons of evil omens, who were almost sentenced to death since birth.

Mungert was well aware of this situation, but he was unable to change it, nor did he think about changing it.

Because even he himself is disgusted by his identity as an evil omen.

Leading Rodel as an evil omen was undoubtedly a defilement, but he had to do it.

Mungat looked over to the side of the subhumans and hybrids again.

There, the Faded Ones collect the gravel from the ground and mix it with some kind of adhesive, and they live in harmony with other creatures.

They didn't look like warriors.

That’s right, even among the Faded, not everyone can choose to become a warrior.

The situation inside Stonewell was much better than Mongett had imagined.

Much better than when Greg was in charge.

Mungart's disguised zombie clone followed the resident all the way into the inner city.

After walking through the streets for a while, they finally came to a five-story building.

The resident who led the way called out the manager of the house.

Under his arrangement, Monget was quickly assigned a room.

The resident who led the way explained the process to the manager here as a matter of routine:
"Old rules."

"First arrange the room, then..."

The manager interrupted the resident.

"Okay, okay, I know. You've told me this many times."

"Bring him to the room first, and then check if there are any missing limbs."

"Finally, let's see what kind of work can be arranged..."

The resident who led the way shrugged, turned and left.

Monget was taken to a room on the fourth floor.

This room is a 4-person room, or dormitory.

Apart from the four beds there was only a wooden table.

Anyway, the people living here are all zombies without any consciousness and only act according to instinct, so it doesn’t matter if they live in a worse place.

However, even with such an environment, it is considered a good living condition in the border area.

The manager checked Mongett's body from head to toe to make sure he had no disabilities.

It was the first time for Monget to experience such an examination and he felt a little uncomfortable.

But he still waited calmly.

The manager nodded. What a healthy corpse.

Apart from being a bit seriously zombified, there are no other disadvantages. Such zombies can take on a lot of jobs.

He then left the room, leaving Monget in the room.

Monget breathed a sigh of relief.

The most critical stage of infiltration has passed, and what remains is to lurk safely and collect intelligence.

Mungette ignored the stupid roommates around him and walked to the window alone, looking at Stonewell outside.

The view from the fourth floor is quite good.

After a while, Mungert found the next place to explore.

That is where a large number of Faded Ones gather, and it is a training ground and a commercial street that provides them with various services.

It was very prosperous there, arguably the most active area in the entire Stonewell. From time to time, winged hybrids could be seen flying around the city carrying packages.

There are all kinds of shops, almost all open day and night.

The originally spacious area seemed very crowded due to the activities of a large number of faded people.

This was a sight that Monget had never seen before.

Stonewell is so prosperous... Maybe this is what a city looks like.

Since birth, Mungot and his brother have been imprisoned in the sewers of Rodel.

In fact, he knew nothing about Rodel's former prosperity.

The silent sewer is filled with sweet laughter and joy only during celebrations.

Mungat could only listen to the occasional sounds of celebration in the deep and dark sewers, while yearning for that beautiful and prosperous era.

It was only when he escaped from the sewer that he truly saw what Rodel looked like.

By then, Rodel was in dire straits, its former prosperity gone, only the remnants of a more prosperous era remaining.

But whether it is the magnificent buildings or the dazzling golden trees, they all demonstrate the prosperous era that once existed.

This rich residue was enough to satisfy the Son of Evil Omen, who had never seen a prosperous age.

Finally, Monget made up his mind.

He must defend Rodel, the capital of the Golden Tree.

So he imagined over and over again the prosperous era under the rule of the golden tree, hoping that one day it would be recreated in his hands.

But he didn't expect that, compared with the royal city, Stonewell was more in line with his imagination of a prosperous era.

There is a vitality here that the border area has never had since the Shattering War, a vitality that he has never seen in his life.

In terms of hardware facilities, Stonewell is inferior to Rodel in every aspect, but it inexplicably makes people feel that this city is alive.

Stonevale, home of the Storm, has been resurrected under the rule of the White Consciousness.

Mungat took a deep breath, woke up from his brief unconsciousness, and began to plan how to obtain intelligence from Stonewell.

Mungart now had to admit that Bai Shi was indeed a worthy opponent.

In this case, we should treat him more seriously.

(End of this chapter)